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When Al Carius was winning Big Ten titles in cross-country and track as a University of Illinois runner nearly 50 years ago, he wore pants with a size 32 waist and promised himself never to need a larger size. The label on the jeans Carius was wearing this week said "W 32. " That not only proves Carius, who turned 70 in July, is a man who keeps his promises. It also is another example of Carius never getting too big for his britches. Not even after having the North Central College men's...

As a high school senior in Dunlap, Ill., a village with a population of 1,386 about 15 miles from Peoria, runner Johnny Crain looked at North Central College as the big time. Such a perspective owes to more than just coming from a little town. North Central may be a small college, but it is THE small college in cross-country, with 15 national titles and 14 second places in the 40 seasons the NCAA has had a Division III championship. "I remember thinking how cool it would be...

When Americans rate their greatest president, they don't agree on who tops the list, but seem to rank a half-dozen ahead of the nation's first. George Washington tied for sixth place in one recent poll and rated seventh in another. In a poll commissioned by Washington College for President's Day, Abraham Lincoln was rated the greatest president. A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll put Ronald Reagan on top. The college's poll surveyed 800 adults and CNN-USA Today-Gallup 1,008.

By John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, June 21 (Reuters) - Twelve of the 14 judges who have served this year on the most secret court in America are Republicans and half are former prosecutors. One is a former director of the Illinois State Police. Another helped direct the White House war on drugs. One served as a prosecutor in the Whitewater case involving the Clintons' real estate investments. Another forced President Bill Clinton to...

Barbara Ann Milnamow, 36, formerly of North Barrington, died July 23, 2000 while participating in a triathlon on Long Island, New York. Barbara graduated from Barrington High School, Newcomb College of Tulane University and Washington College of Law of the American University. She practiced law in New York and Washington, D.C. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C. on Friday, July 28th. Visitation will be at Joseph Gawlers Funeral Home, 5130 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, D.C. on...

When Al Carius was winning Big Ten titles in cross-country and track as a University of Illinois runner nearly 50 years ago, he wore pants with a size 32 waist and promised himself never to need a larger size. The label on the jeans Carius was wearing this week said "W 32. " That not only proves Carius, who turned 70 in July, is a man who keeps his promises. It also is another example of Carius never getting too big for his britches. Not even after having the North Central College men's...

Philip Asbury Hickman Jr., 83 years old, of Alhambra, CA, died Friday, March 9, 2001 at the Grossman Burn Center, Sherman Oaks Hospital, Sherman Oaks, CA, as a result of a kitchen accident. He had recently moved from Leisure World, Laguna Woods, CA. Mr. Hickman, son of the late Philip A. and Bertha Richards Hickman was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 14, 1917. His mother died when he was four months old and he was raised by his paternal grandparents. He graduated from Pocomoke City High School in 1934 and graduated from...

A former Harold Washington College student who was expelled last year was ordered held Tuesday on a charge of stalking a professor over the weekend, officials said. Shirley Williams, 48, of the 7600 block of South Coles Avenue was ordered held in lieu of $90,000 bail, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney's office. Williams was arrested Sunday after she allegedly paid a second unwanted visit to a female professor's South Side home...

William D. Joyner, 70, past president of the Chicago chapter of the International Executive Housekeeping Association Inc., died July 2 of cancer in Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. Born in Hartford, Conn., Dr. Joyner moved to Chicago in 1971 to accept a position as director of environmental services for Cook County Hospital. A few years later, in 1975, he helped the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Water Tower Place get up and running as its director of guest services. Dr. Joyner...

More than 20 years ago, Mike Dau inherited a book and a mystery. The yellowing first volume of "History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France" appeared to be a Civil War battlefield trophy -- a soldier had written in its pages that it had been taken from the Virginia Military Institute before the Union Army torched the campus in 1864. However, the book also bore an inscription from Washington College, a neighboring institution of higher...

More than 20 years ago, Mike Dau inherited a book and a mystery. The yellowing first volume of "History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France" appeared to be a Civil War battlefield trophy -- a soldier had written in its pages that it had been taken from the Virginia Military Institute before the Union Army torched the campus in 1864. However, the book also bore an inscription from Washington College, a neighboring institution of higher...

When Americans rate their greatest president, they don't agree on who tops the list, but seem to rank a half-dozen ahead of the nation's first. George Washington tied for sixth place in one recent poll and rated seventh in another. In a poll commissioned by Washington College for President's Day, Abraham Lincoln was rated the greatest president. A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll put Ronald Reagan on top. The college's poll surveyed 800 adults and CNN-USA Today-Gallup 1,008.

Catharine Clarke, cash-strapped college student, just got strapped further: Thanks to a shortage of campus housing, she's renting a cramped one-bedroom apartment that costs her almost $1,500 a year more than a dorm room. "It's a definite crunch," says Clarke, an 18-year-old sophomore at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. An acute housing crunch has hit campuses across the United States, as children of Baby Boomers flock to school in record numbers. Enrollment in United States colleges is...

Philip Asbury Hickman Jr., 83 years old, of Alhambra, CA, died Friday, March 9, 2001 at the Grossman Burn Center, Sherman Oaks Hospital, Sherman Oaks, CA, as a result of a kitchen accident. He had recently moved from Leisure World, Laguna Woods, CA. Mr. Hickman, son of the late Philip A. and Bertha Richards Hickman was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 14, 1917. His mother died when he was four months old and he was raised by his paternal grandparents. He graduated from Pocomoke City High School in 1934 and graduated from...

As a high school senior in Dunlap, Ill., a village with a population of 1,386 about 15 miles from Peoria, runner Johnny Crain looked at North Central College as the big time. Such a perspective owes to more than just coming from a little town. North Central may be a small college, but it is THE small college in cross-country, with 15 national titles and 14 second places in the 40 seasons the NCAA has had a Division III championship. "I remember thinking how cool it would be...

Catharine Clarke, cash-strapped college student, just got strapped further: Thanks to a shortage of campus housing, she's renting a cramped one-bedroom apartment that costs her almost $1,500 a year more than a dorm room. "It's a definite crunch," says Clarke, an 18-year-old sophomore at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. An acute housing crunch has hit campuses across the United States, as children of Baby Boomers flock to school in record numbers. Enrollment in United States colleges is...

By John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, June 21 (Reuters) - Twelve of the 14 judges who have served this year on the most secret court in America are Republicans and half are former prosecutors. One is a former director of the Illinois State Police. Another helped direct the White House war on drugs. One served as a prosecutor in the Whitewater case involving the Clintons' real estate investments. Another forced President Bill Clinton to...

Barbara Ann Milnamow, 36, formerly of North Barrington, died July 23, 2000 while participating in a triathlon on Long Island, New York. Barbara graduated from Barrington High School, Newcomb College of Tulane University and Washington College of Law of the American University. She practiced law in New York and Washington, D.C. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C. on Friday, July 28th. Visitation will be at Joseph Gawlers Funeral Home, 5130 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, D.C. on...